Service Level Goal: This request may take 14 days to resolve or complete.

Resolution:

Traffic & Parking Services will investigate your request and notify you of its decision to remove the sign or not. This process can be expedited if removal is requested by the person or business who originally requested installation of the sign or zone.

If approved, the Traffic Engineer or his/her designee generates an inter-office request to the Traffic Department for the removal of the sign(s) and the service request is closed out.

New Traffic Sign Request

Are you aware of a traffic safety issue that might be improved with the addition of a new traffic sign?

Service Level Goal: This request may take 60 days to complete or resolve.

Resolution:

Minneapolis Traffic and Parking Services will conduct a preliminary study that will take into consideration traffic and pedestrian volumes, vehicular speeds, accident history, visibility, sign spacing, and other conditions.

If the installation of a traffic sign is deemed appropriate, it will be scheduled for installation.

Due to budget reductions, the City no longer installs or maintains certain types of signs (see below)

Street signs that the City supports: (contact 311)

Alley speed limit (customer must install, on private property)

Regulatory, Warning, and Informational Signs

Speed Limit (over 30 MPH)

The City will install the following signs for a fee: (contact 311)

Loading Zone (paid zone)

No Parking Zone (paid zone)

Short Term Parking Zone (paid zone )

The City does NOT support the following signs (repair, install, or maintain):

The City will respond to vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic safety issues and concerns. The City will remove or repair signs that are downed or damaged, and are a hazard to public safety (contact 311). Budget reductions have impacted some sign services that may have been supplied in the past.

Last updated Aug 6, 2018

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